📚 Fun chat, @LeeSmithDC expected it would be narrowly on Thucydides –
but I expanded the theme to discuss Covid, tyranny, Hannah Arendt and how we tell ourselves “this” story.
Thanks @wtm_leesmith
🍿🥤 Please watch & lemme know your thoughts🤔
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RIP Michael Sugrue: Improvisation on Thucydides
🙏 RIP Michael Sugrue (1957- 2024).
This is a masterpiece lecture AND a heck of a book review:
“Improvisation on Thucydides”
Be Thucydides
✍️ Thucydides wrote about history’s first revolution. Can you tell the story of its last?
🪖 This is the starter kit, a Thucydidean reading list:
📚 Civil War, Tyrannies Turned Inwards, How Language Changes in War, and so on and so on
Thucydides. HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WARS
THUCYDIDES, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war in which the Peloponnesians and the Athenians fought against one another.
Read this book
Thank you for visiting this list of what I have read. The past and present will be gone soon and this is how to get it back.
Discussion with author Lee Smith
🍿🥤 Flashback to a chat on Periscope.
📚 It was you, me and @LeeSmithDC ✍️ author of The Plot Against the President.
🟪 > 🇺🇸 What if the Coup against the President never ended?
🪖 Will we forever live in Athens v Sparta?
Michael Anton: Machiavelli and a tyranny turned inwards
A chat with Michael Anton: Machiavelli, Thucydides, a Green Zone in D.C and a tyranny turned inwards
Alcibiades the Musical! (first draft)
🎭 Alcibiades the Musical 🎶 starts with an adorable child wearing glasses 🧒👓 in the first row turns to face the crowd and sings the opening number 🧑🎤 “Same Shit Different Day.
👏It begins
Shifting the Unprofitable to Platform Based Workers
Platform based workers: When unprofitable work is abundant, profitable work is scarce and Corporate tyrannies have turned inwards.